Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

The online Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders (CDOL) provides authorized priesthood leaders and clerks with information on Church units and other organizations within the Church, including contact information for their leaders. CDOL is available to:

General Authorities

Church headquarters managers and employees based on their assigned responsibilities

Area administrative office managers and employees based on their assigned responsibilities

Capabilities

CDOL allows leaders to:

Look up leaders of other units, including contact information

See the organizational structure of units. For example, a stake would have links to the wards and branches within the stake and any family history centers in the stake, as well as larger entities that include the stake, such as areas, welfare regions, temple districts, etc.

Access a Unit Locator to find what ward and stake contains a given street address

View current unit boundary maps.

Find how to contact any Church department

Create a customized directory

Perform searches for organizations or leaders using multiple search criteria

This is currently available to bishops and branch presidents, stake and district presidencies and stake and district clerks.

As of 19 May 2011 CDOL ward and branch summary pages now show the following positional information in addition to those previously included:

Ward

Branch

Bishopric First Counselor

Branch Presidency First Counselor

Bishopric Second Counselor

Branch Presidency Second Counselor

Ward Executive Secretary

Branch Executive Secretary

Ward Clerk

Branch Clerk

Accessing CDOL

This online CDOL uses LDS Account credentials and is located at https://cdol.lds.org. If you do not have an LDS Account, you will need to create one the first time you visit the website. This can be done by clicking the link "Register for an LDS Account."

Authorized users

User privileges are based on the nature of the assignment (such as Stake President, Bishop, Ward Clerk, Church Employee, etc.). In most cases, users have only search and view capabilities. Adding and editing rights are limited to users in specific positions, such as managers and employees at Church Headquarters and Area Administrative Offices.

To have access, users must be listed in the correct standard position in CDOL and have an LDS Account. People with these callings will be listed in CDOL if they have been added using the appropriate Leader and Unit Change Request form or are properly listed in MLS using the standardized callings.

The following positions have been approved for access:

Stake

Ward

Stake President

Bishop

Stake Presidency Counselors

Bishopric Counselors

Stake Clerk and Assistant Clerks

Ward Clerk and Assistant Clerks

Stake Executive Secretary and Assistant Executive Secretary

Executive Secretary

District

Branch

District President

Branch President

District Presidency Counselors

Branch Presidency Counselors

District Clerk and Assistant Clerks

Branch Clerk and Assistant Clerks

District Executive Secretary and Assistant Executive Secretary

Branch Executive Secretary

The above positions have the following rights:

View all public non sensitive data.

Edit contact information for their positions.

View all Church standard positions for their units.

Stake/District positions can view all standard positions on their child units.

Ward/Branch positions can view all standard positions for their Stake/District.

View current unit boundary maps.

Family History Center directors

FHC directors can access CDOL, but can only view the following organizations: Family History Center, Family History Service Center, Family History Training Center, and Family History Center - Public Library.

Alternative for those without access to CDOL

Someone without access to CDOL can look up the leader of a congregation using LDS Maps. Enter a member's address and the congregation responsible for that location is displayed. Click on that congregation's link to view the bishop's last name and a phone number.

Data interchange between CDOL and MLS

Depending on the position being updated, data may flow in either direction between CDOL and MLS. CDOL also negotiates the exchange of data between stakes and its units (wards and branches) when changes made using the stake's MLS affect those stake units or when changes made using the ward's MLS affect the stake unit.

Supported languages

The Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders will be translated into a total of 41 languages. Currently over 80% are translated.

Released languages

CDOL is currently available in the following languages. Please note that languages are viewed based on the user's browser setting. If the user's browser is set to Spanish (es) then the user will see CDOL screen text in Spanish.

Historical

Later it was published on CDs that were sent to local units. The last update on CD was distributed in March 2007.

The first online version of CDOL was created at http://col.ldschurch.org. This website used NetID login credentials. As of 31 December 2008 this site ceased being promoted; in August 2009 it was discontinued and now simply directs users to register for an LDS Account and then use the new site at http://cdol.lds.org.

The current version of CDOL was announced in a letter dated 18 December 2008.